Illegal Israeli settlers fence off over 200 hectares of Palestinian land in West Bank

Israeli settlers on Thursday fenced off about 202 hectares (500 acres) of Palestinian-owned agricultural land in the Khirbet Samra area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. 

Wafa said fencing off the land marks an initial step towards seizing it.

Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has reported that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has built or approved around 48,000 settlement housing units since taking office, a figure expected to rise to 50,000.

The figures expose the regime’s relentless expansion of illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank, deepening the theft of Palestinian land in defiance of international law and repeated global condemnation.